By now, you’ve heard the Writer’s Guide is on strike for a better percentage of the residuals (royalties) from non-broadcast revenue (DVD’s, internet, etc …). As usual, the lawyer suits running the networks are nitwits. First, without writers – you have NOTHING. A lot of people smirk and claim that what’s on network TV is […]

PORTFOLIO magazine is the new business magazine from Conde Nast … publishers of VOGUE, GQ and subsequently, the current owners of the NEW YORKER and even WIRED magazine. They are the GE of publishing. We’re here to be #1 in the category, we will wear you down with professionalism, a crack sales staff and if […]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC […]

Recently, AP and others have caught Comcast red-handed intercepting internet traffic and changing the header/packet info. Mostly, they seem to slowing down or halting BitTorrent traffic but they also seem to be intercepting/slowing/halting Lotus Notes traffic across the internet. On the surface, they might seem to be claiming that all BitTorrent is “illegal” and slowing […]

A few weeks after the iPhone hit the market, AT&T sent out an extensive 20-question survey (covered in this post). Now, AT&T has followed up with another email survey – some questions the same – obviously to gauge differences between mid-July and now mid-October but others are more detailed in asking what you would like […]

No real surprises as summed up by Mattel’s CEO … recall cost us money, couldn’t sell as much stuff, Barbie down – Pixar CARS part of division up 29% (division also includes electronic games, Radica): “Despite the challenges the company faced during the third quarter, the business has performed fairly well, even with some supply […]

Part I covered the “extra” features of the iPhone – most not revolutionary and not even evolutionary but here’s a strange concept to them apparently for cell phone manufacturers and mobile service providers … something really, really radical … A concept strange to them … EASY TO USE. What a strange concept. Anyone can throw […]

The venerable mag Variety is reporting that Led Zeppelin will have its music available on digital platforms from all online retailers beginning Nov. 13. Now you can get the Led out via MP3! The band has also made a deal with Verizon to have its songs available as ringtones (is nothing sacred?). Led Zeppelin has […]

Okay, I’m awake, I’m awake! Surprise, the DVD is coming out … Not quite as elaborate as the Criss Angel one …

Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude […]